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Re: is gitosis secure?

From
Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 14, 2008, 11:42 UTC
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On 2008-12-14, david@lang.hm <david@lang.hm> wrote:
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> On Sun, 14 Dec 2008, martin wrote:
>> Why do you trust VPN more than the SSH?
> in part it's that a VPN is a single point of control for all remote 
> access.
>
> If you use ssh you end up exposing all the individual machines

Need not be true. None of my internal servers aer even accessible from the outside world; they're all in RFC1918 space and there's only one gateway. This *is* my single point of control.

I can setup different port numbers to forward to different internal servers (ssh, http, whatever I wish); that may sound like a form of "exposing" but in reality it's a lot *more* restrictive than setting up a VPN and granting access to it.

I actually don't like VPNs; they imply that you're "inside" the network in some way, and I hate blurring that distinction. If I'm outside, I want to be acutely aware of it, and the fact that I can't even ping one of the inside hosts or see what's on it, or do anything other than what is specifically allowed by the gateway, is one way of ensuring this.

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